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THE TOMB OF DRACULA — Issue no. 64, February 1978 / / The cover promises “This is the big one! Dracula — face-to-face with Satan!” So that got my interest! The actual execution isn’t that compelling. At the start of the story, Satan has captured Dracula and a young woman named Topaz, and both are…
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SPIDER-WOMAN — Issue no. 2, February 1978 / / I mainly know Spider-Woman from her late ’70s Saturday morning cartoon (now available on Disney+). As for her comic book, looks like I’m jumping in very early in the book’s run, and Spider-Woman (AKA Jessica Drew) is apparently struggling with some sort of amnesia. And she’s…
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DAREDEVIL — Issue no. 152, February 1978 / / I had to double-check that I was looking at the right issue. The artwork, especially George Roussos’ moody colors, looks more like something I’d expect to see in an early 1990s comic. Roussos delivers a lot more subtlety and complexity than I expect from comics of…
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MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE — Issue no. 39, February 1978 / / A lot of modern superhero comic books are “written for the trade paperback.” That is to say the stories are conceived in four- or five-issue arcs that can later be neatly collected in a trade paperback (or the electronic version of a trade paperback). One…
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THE INVADERS — Issue no. 28, February 1978 / / “The Invaders” is a 1970s comic series that tells new (at the time) stories about the 1940s World War II exploits of old-school Marvel heroes Captain America, the Sub-Mariner (AKA Namor, prince of Atlantis), and the original Human Torch (this is an android, not the more…
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MARVEL SUPER-HEROES — Issue no. 71, February 1978 / / In the late 1970s if you wanted to read old issues of comic books, you couldn’t just go download them to Comixology on your iPad or stream them via the Marvel Unlimited app. I don’t even remember seeing trade paperback collections of comics in those…
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GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS — Issue no. 10, February 1978 / / Godzilla isn’t originally a Marvel Comics character, of course. The comic book company licensed him from Toho, the Japanese movie studio who created the iconic kaiju. So it’s interesting that Marvel just dropped Godzilla into the Marvel universe. That’s what I’m assuming…